thundern.
/ˈθʌndə/, U.S. /ˈθəndər/ 1.
a. The loud noise accompanying a flash of lightning (apparently following it, being heard after it at an interval depending on distance), due to the sudden violent disturbance of the air by the electric discharge; varying from a sharp report or crash to a prolonged roll or reverberation. Also, the unseen cause of the phenomenon, the meteorological condition or action (scientifically, the electric storm and discharge) from which the loud noise proceeds.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder
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β. c1290 St. Brendan 473 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 232 Gret betynge and noyse i-nouȝ, þondre ase þei it were. a1325Ðhunder [see sense 1b]. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 100 The god of thonder Whiche that men callen Iupiter.c1460 Brut 510 A gret tempest of thondre & lightenyng.?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 802/1 Hic tonitrus, thwndur.c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 47 The thoundir is ane corrupt fume generit on the eird.a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 173 A drumme..That shall..mocke the deepe mouth'd Thunder . View more context for this quotation1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 97 By the decreasing noise of thunder, we form the idea of its moving further from us.1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 244 The cloud..began now, by one or two distant peals, to announce the thunders with which it was fraught.1858 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (ed. 5) ii. 124 The thunder, heard, not..in short and broken peals, but in one continuous roll.1912 N.E.D. at Thunder Mod. It is a sultry day; I think there must be thunder about. The farmer's wife says that the thunder turns the milk.c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1152 Jovem, þuner.]
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xii. 29 Ðe here forðon ðio stod & geherde cuoedun ðuner þætte auorden.
OE Riddle (Gr.) xlvii. 22 Stefne ðunures micles.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 280 Swa hattra sumor, swa mara ðunor & liget on geare.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Heore eþem scean swa deð þe leit a-monge þunre.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 160 Tonere, thonner.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxvi[i]. 17 [18] Þe voice of þi thunure in whele.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22143 Thoner o-loft fal sal he gar.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 140 We ware..striken doune to þe erthe with grete hidous blastez of wind and of thouner.
1483 Cath. Angl. 384/1 A Thonour, tonitruus.
1483 Cath. Angl. 387/2 A Thownyr.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 154 Ane rak of fartis lyk ony thunner.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 167 Rather than ye suld ride on in the rain and thunner.
b. Regarded as the destructive agent producing the effects usually attributed to the lightning; (with a and plural) a thunderstroke or ‘thunderbolt’. Now only poetic or rhetorical (exc. figurative).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. ii. §1 Þunor toslog heora hieh~stan godes hus.
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. xxix Hiene ofslog an þunor.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1108 Oc siðen loth wente ut of hine, Brende it ðhunder, sanc it erðe-dine.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 109 Fro the sky A firy thonder sodeinly He sende, and him to pouldre smot.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 7 Þer schall na thunder ne na maner of tempest dere him.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 39 Thise thoners and levyn Downe gar fall..Castels and towres.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 81 Let thy blowes..Fall like amazing thunder on the caske Of thy aduerse pernitious enemy. View more context for this quotation
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 209 The Thunder had thrown down a good part of it.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 243 The Thunder fell upon her, and kill'd her out-right.
1751 J. MacSparran Let. Bk. (1899) 61 The Thunder struck Col. Northrup.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. ii. ii. 304 To acquaint them that we had weapons which, like thunder, would destroy them in a moment.
1820 P. B. Shelley Vision of Sea in Prometheus Unbound 177 Six the thunder has smitten, And they lie black as mummies.
c. (with a and plural) A peal of thunder, a thunder-clap. Now only poetic or rhetorical.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] > of thunder
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thunder bounce1629
thunder-peal1804
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 280 Þa þuneras..on apocalipsin synd gastlice to understandenne.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. x. 3 Whan he hadde cried, seuen thundres spaken her voices.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18124 Þar come a mikel steuen, Als it a thoner war of heuen.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xliii. 21 Thunders are nothing els but the blows and thumps given by the fires beating hard upon the clouds.
c1665 Baxter in Reliq. 23 Apr. ann. 1661 (1696) 303 As they were returning from Westminster-hall, there was very terrible Thunders, when none expected it.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 553 The Thunders roul, the forky Lightning flies.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak lxx, in Poems (new ed.) II. 81 Low thunders bring the mellow rain.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxiv. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 85 And a sullen thunder is roll'd.
d. (with a and plural) A thunderstorm. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > thunderstorm
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tempest?1533
tornado1589
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thunder-storma1656
line-thunderstorm1887
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6019 Was a weder ful selcut snell, A thonor [Fairf. þondre, Gött. thoner, Trin. Cambr. þondur] wit an haile sua kene.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiv. 65 In somer es þer grete thundres and leightens.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxxi. 263 Thenne felle there a thonder and a rayne as heuen and erthe shold goo to gyder.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7619 A thondir with a thicke Rayn thrublit in þe skewes.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. iii. i. 42 It seemed to him, that in a thunder the bolt fell vpon his Fathers House.
1665 E. Digges in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 26 Our Country of Virginia is very much subject to Thunders.
1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 101 I zim arter theāse mizzle us chell 'ave a thinder.
2. transferred. Any loud deep rumbling or resounding noise. (Also with a and plural.)
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise
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noise?c1225
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reer?a1400
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steveningc1440
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bruit?1473
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gild?a1513
shout?a1513
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thunder-crack1595
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clamour1606
thunder-clap1610
obstrepency1623
tonitruation1658
randana1661
clarion1667
leden1674
bluster1724
salvoa1734
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row1753
tonance1778
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blare1807
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detonation1830
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trumpeting1850
foghorn1875
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 117 I was with Hercules and Cadmus, once, When..they bayed the Beare, With hounds of Sparta... I neuer heard So musicall a discord, such sweete thunder . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxix. 25 He smelleth the battaile afarre off, the thunder of the captaines, and the shouting. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 26 The thunder of my Cannon shall be heard. View more context for this quotation
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 602 One continued thunder of Cannon.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 319 Let the pealing organ play; And while the harmonious thunders roll [etc.].
1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vii. 23 Thunders of applause from the pit and the galleries.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 46 The great organ..rolling thro' the court A long melodious thunder.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 36 The thunder of surf on the shore.
3. figurative.
a. Threatening, terrifying, or strongly impressive utterance; awful denunciation, menace, censure, or invective, ‘fulmination’; vehement or powerful eloquence. (singular and plural.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > [noun] > violent
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thunder-crack1577
thunder-clap1610
thunder-blast1884
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > vehemency or vehement language
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thunder-blast1884
strong languagea1910
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 288 Drede we nouȝt þis þondir, for it turneþ aȝen & cursiþ þe welle þat it come fro.
c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Prol. to Rom. 332 Bot the spret mon first cum,..and with the thwndyr of the law feare him.
1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 153 Who felt the Thunder of the States Decree.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 407. ¶1 Pouring out the Thunder of his Rhetorick.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xxi. 591 He directed the thunders of the church against heresy.
1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxx, in Monthly Packet Sept. 176 The barons..thought little of the thunders of the Pope.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. ii. viii. 162 Something..made him [sc. Stephen]..hurl in their faces the gathered thunder of his wrath and scorn.
b. In phrases denoting great force or energy (chiefly in versions or imitations of the Scriptures).
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxvi. 14 Who can perceaue and vnderstonde ye thondre of his power?
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxix. 19 Hast thou clothed his necke with thunder?
1757 T. Gray Ode I iii. ii, in Odes 10 With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-resounding pace.
1796 E. Hamilton Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811) I. 83 One of their ships of war, a huge edifice, whose sides were clothed with thunder.
1818 [see thunder-maned adj. at Compounds 1d(a)]. 1887 [see thunder-shod adj. at Compounds 1c]. c. struck with thunder = thunderstruck adj. 2a. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective]
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wonderfulc1380
astoniedc1400
marvelling?a1425
amazed1548
admirative1582
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wondering1592
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admired1684
astonished1716
breathless1768
unbreathing1789
agazed1803
astounded1810
obfuscated1822
struck with thunder1823
surprised1882
zapped1962
mind-blown1967
gob-struck1985
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. i. 13 ‘I am struck with thunder,’ said Crevecœur. ‘Liege in insurrection!—..the Bishop murdered!’
d. Figurative phrase to steal (someone's) thunder: to use the ideas, policies, etc., devised by another person, political party, etc., for one's own advantage or to anticipate their use by the originator. Derived from the utterance of John Dennis (1657–1734), ‘Damn them!..they will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder,’ on hearing the stage thunder produced by a method designed for his own play of Appius & Virginia being used for a performance of Macbeth. (Spence quoted in W. S. Walsh Lit. Curios. (1893) 1052; cf. Pope's note on Dunciad ii. 223.)
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb]
to steal (someone's) thunder1900
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)] > act in advance or anticipate > anticipate someone
to steal (someone's) thunder1900
to beat a person to the punch1965
1900 E. E. Peake Darlingtons iii. 23 You must all remember that papa had stolen my thunder.
1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ix. 144 ‘Happy maid!’ he murmured. Zuleika replied that he was stealing her thunder: hadn't she envied the girl at his lodgings?
1931 Time & Tide 12 Sept. 1049 Sir Oswald Mosley's exploit was to steal a little of the protectionist thunder temporarily abandoned by the Conservatives.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 222 It is important..to disregard the jealousy of the modern literary gent who hates science because science has stolen literature's thunder.
1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador ii. 19 He would have been watching the returns in the Senate elections I guess. This'll steal a bit of their thunder, that's for sure.
4. slang or colloquial. Used vaguely in exclamations, imprecations, and expletive or intensive phrases.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > oaths other than religious or obscene
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1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 137. ⁋3 Thunder, Furies, and Damnation! I'll cut your Ears off.
1826 Massachusetts Spy 23 Aug. The bull roared like thunder! I split like lightning!
1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxxiii. 274 He turned..and giv me a look as black as thunder.
1841 H. Greeley in R. W. Griswold Passages from Corr. (1898) 94 Why in thunder did you go off on Saturday without seeing me?
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxv ‘Thunder and turf!’ said the drunken giant.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 95 Go to thunder, gal!
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xv. 204 Don't none on you tread on my corns for thunder's sake.
1867 H. J. Daniel Muse in Motley 25 He'll screech like thoonder, iss he will.
1876 E. W. Heap Diary 24 Nov. in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 55 Every paper around is giving the road Thunder.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 66 Why in thunder, if you were hungry, did you not come and tell me?
1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 79 Where in thunder did he get the money?
1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion v. 188 Of course they do. Then what in thunder are we quarrelling about?
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon i. ii. 48 You kin go to thunder, Jim Mayo!
1927 E. O'Neill Marco Millions ii. i. 102 War is a waste of money which eats into the profits of life like thunder!
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. iii. 77 What in thunder are you fellows up to over at Varner's?
Compounds
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a. General attributive.
(a) Of, as of, pertaining to, or connected with thunder.
thunder-burst n.
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1882 Imperial Dict. Thunder-burst.
a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 176 I can remember those awful thunder-bursts and the white glare of the lightning yet.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 362 Thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality.
thunder-colour adj.
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1873 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 232 The others [sc. pigeons] are dull thundercolour or black-grape-colour.
thunder-crackle n.
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1941 L. MacNeice Plant & Phantom 20 Thunder-crackle and the bounce of hail.
thunder-crash n.
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1828 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Tancredus i. 5 The thunder-crash broke over our heads.
thunder-fire n.
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1855 P. J. Bailey Spiritual Legend in Mystic 115 Rooted out..with threefold thunder-fires.
thunder-gloom n.
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. viii. iv. 258 Some thunder gloom on thine own destiny.
a1867 A. Smith Last Leaves (1868) 154 He could watch the purple thunder-gloom gathering on the distant hills.
thunder-place n.
thunder-psalm n.
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1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 25 The winged storms, chaunting their thunder-psalm To other lands.
thunder-quake n.
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1940 J. Betjeman Old Lights for New Chancels 19 Not Satan's thunder quake Can cause the mighty walls of Heaven to shake.
thunder-rain n.
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1826 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary i. xiv Sounds of thickening steps, like thunder-rain That plashes on the roof.
1926 D. H. Lawrence David xi. 78 Till they drop in drops of blood, like thunder-rain, and the land is red.
thunder-roll n.
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1844 E. B. Browning Rhapsody Life's Progress v Let the cloud meet the cloud in a grand thunder-roll!
thunder-scar n.
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1710 A. Philips Pastorals 2 Yonder naked tree Which bears the thunder-scar.
thunder-sky n.
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1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 264 The heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky.
thunder-sound n.
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1886 W. B. Yeats Mosada 7 The faint far thunder-sound.
thunder-tent n.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 106 Ethereal things that,..Can..poise about in cloudy thunder-tents.
thunder-throne n.
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1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxxiv, in Poems (1967) 62 Mid-numberèd he [sc. Christ] in three of the thunder-throne!
thunder-volley n.
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a1847 E. Cook Song Seaweed iii The thunder-volley shakes.
thunder-weather n.
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a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 3729 Hij holdeþ hem alle togidre So flok of dere in þonder wedre.
1900 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne xxiv. 301 This thunner-weather that's coming up.
(b) Violent, destructive, or (esp.) loud as thunder.
thunder-blow n.
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1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. iii. 28 We saw the thunder-blows Given and taken.
thunder-bullet n.
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1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. B1v Lou'dst thou a towne, Ide teach thee how to woo her, With words of thunder-bullets wrapt in fire.
thunder-curse n.
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1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James (1817) 31 This dreadful thunder~curse or imprecation.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 222 As an angel when He hears the thunder-curse of demon foe.
thunder-music n.
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1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxv. 125 I..heard..thunder-music, rolling, shake The prophets blazon'd on the panes.
thunder-shout n.
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1863 J. Tyndall Heat vi. §210 The Earth..rang with the thunder-shout of the liberated prisoner.
thunder-voice n.
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1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 39 It is Fact, speaking..in miraculous thunder-voice.
thunder-yell n.
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1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 85 Still yelling her thunder-yells to the blast.
b. Objective, etc.
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thunder-thrower n.
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1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 315 Vassals of the Thunder-Thrower.
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thunder-breathing adj.
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1826 E. Irving Babylon II. 380 Our thunder-breathing ships.
thunder-forging adj.
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1778 R. Potter Notes Tragedies Æschylus 543 The thunder-forging Cyclopes.
thunder-guiding adj.
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1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 168 Rule Of thunder-guiding powers.
thunder-ruling adj.
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1749 G. West Hymn of Cleanthes 49 O great father, thunder-ruling god!
thunder-throning adj.
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a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 135 That columnar, thunder-throning cloud.
thunder-throwing adj.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 142 God's Thunder-throwing hand.
thunder-wielding adj.
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1816 W. Wordsworth Feelings of Fr. Royalist The thunder-wielding hands Of Justice.
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thunder-delighting adj. (delighting in thunder).
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1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 15 Thunder-delighting Jove.
thunder-fearless adj.
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a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ddddddddv/1 Low at your sacred feet our poor Muse layes Her, and her thunder-fearlesse virdant Bayes.
thunder-free adj.
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1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes ii, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 8/2 A Greek, bay-filleted and thunder-free.
thunder-proof adj.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. iii. sig. Diii Vnlesse his house and skin were thunder-proofe . View more context for this quotation
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiii. 69 The Giants found that even Mountains were not Thunder-Proof.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I iv, in Wks. (1870) II. 394 Through palaces and temples thunderproof.
thunder-rejoicing adj.
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1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 45 In honour of thunder-rejoicing Jove.
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thunder-like adj.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. v. 30 With thy grim lookes, and The Thunder-like percussion of thy sounds. View more context for this quotation
1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man II. ii. 73 A crash was heard. Thunderlike it reverberated through the sky.
1846 R. Browning Let. 7 Sept. How hot and thunder-like this oppressive air!
c. Instrumental.
thunder-armed adj.
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1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. C3v Imperiall crown'd, and thunder-armed Ioue.
thunder-baffled adj.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. ii. 101 An eagle..his thunder-baffled wings Entangled in the whirlwind.
thunder-charged adj.
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1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke II. lxxi. 162 A mass of heavy and louring clouds, dark and thunder-charged.
thunder-cloven adj.
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxviii. 137 The barest..most thunder-cloven old oak.
thunder-fraught adj.
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1810 S. Rogers To Old Oak iv Many a navy thunder-fraught.
thunder-girt adj.
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1853 R. Browning Johannes Agricola 14 Ere stars were thundergirt.
thunder-heavy adj.
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1922 E. Blunden Bonadventure xii. 68 After the storm, the air was thunder-heavy all that day.
thunder-hid adj.
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c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxi. 22 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 117 Thunder-hid I answer gaue.
thunder-laden adj.
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1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus I. i. xliii. 373 The thunder-laden Revelation.
thunder-riven adj.
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1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 443/1 The fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven.
thunder-scarred adj.
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1842 A. T. de Vere Song of Faith 198 Cliffs..Wave-worn and thunder-scarred.
thunder-scathed adj.
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1826 J. G. Whittier Writings (1888) IV. App. 303 Where the thunder-scath'd peaks of Helvetia are frowning.
1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 18 His brawny force All thunder-scathed and cindered.
thunder-shod adj.
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1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 78 O for the time when thunder-shod He champed the grain of the wrath of God.
thunder-smitten adj.
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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 395 The..bare, thunder-smitten tree.
thunder-splintered adj.
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1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 14 A rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle.
thunder-split adj.
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1825 J. Wilson Poems II. 39 Like a thunder-split oak-tree.
thunder-splitten adj.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 169 The shattered and thunder-splitten peaks of Arran.
thunder-stormy adj.
thunder-teeming adj.
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1761 R. Glover Medea iii. vi. 51 No thunder-teeming cloud.
thunder-thwarted adj.
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1855 P. J. Bailey Spiritual Legend in Mystic 127 Black Babel's thunder-thwarted pile.
thunder-tipped adj.
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1822 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 209 Speed With your tongues thunder-tipt and tell Cleon our need.
d. Parasynthetic and similative.
(a)
thunder-browed adj.
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1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 44 Full of wrath and thunder-browed.
thunder-coloured adj.
ΚΠ
1907 R. Brooke Let. Sept. (1968) 106 We have been sitting at an evil café sipping thunder-coloured coffee from glasses.
thunder-footed adj.
ΚΠ
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) Proem p. xiii The thunder-footed coursers of the sun.
thunder-maned adj.
ΚΠ
1818 H. H. Milman Samor iii. 50 The thunder-maned steed.
thunder-tongued adj.
(b)
thunder-purple adj.
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1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 80 The thunder-purple seabeach plumèd purple-of-thunder.
thunder-red adj.
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1949 E. Blunden After Bombing 15 And foam, pearl-pink and thunder-red.
C2. Special combinations. See also thunder and lightning n., thunder-blast n., etc.† thunder bounce n. humorously bombastic Obsolete a loud sudden noise like thunder. † thunder-clover n. [Old English þunor-clafre] Obsolete a plant, of doubtful identity.† thunder-dart n. Obsolete a thunderbolt (in art).† ˈthunder-ˌdarting adj. Obsolete† thunder-flone n. [flone, flane n., arrow] Obsolete a thunderbolt or thunderstroke; lightning. † thunder-pad n. dialect Obsolete see quot. † thunder-rod n. Obsolete a lightning-rod or lightning-conductor (see lightning n. and adj. Compounds 3).† thunder-shot n. Obsolete thunderbolts collectively; lightning.† thunder-shot adj. Obsolete struck by ‘thunder’ or lightning.† thunder-smith n. Obsolete one who forges thunderbolts: applied to Vulcan, also figurative.† thunder-thump n. Obsolete ? a thunderbolt.† thunder-thump v. Obsolete transitive to thump or beat with thundering strokes.† thunder-thumping adj. Obsolete (a) striking with thunder (humorously bombastic); (b) sounding like thunder when beaten, as a drum; also figurative of language, ‘full of sound and fury’.
thunder-axe n. a popular name in Cornwall for a celt (cf. thunderbolt n. 3b).
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1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 8 There are also taken vp in such works, certaine little tooles heads of Brasse, which some terme Thunder-axes.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 223 The country folk..still hold that the ‘thunder-axes’ they find, once fell from the sky.
thunder-ball n. (a) the electric phenomenon called a fire-ball or globe-lightning; (b) poetic a thunderbolt; (c) the common red poppy ( Papaver rhœas) (dialect).
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > globular
fireball1611
thunder-ball1686
globular lightning1843
ball lightning1846
ball of fire1900
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types
fireball1611
forked lightning1611
summer lightning1679
ball of fire1684
thunder-ball1686
sheet lightning1794
wildfirea1831
heat-lightning1834
globular lightning1843
ribbon lightning1888
beaded lightning1889
bead lightning1899
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
thunderc893
thunder-dintc1374
thunder-flonec1380
thunder-blasta1400
thunderboltc1440
thunder-stone1598
thunder-clap1610
thunderstrokea1616
trisulc1637
thunder-ball1820
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of
laitc900
slaughta1300
levinc1300
fire-slaughta1400
flaughta1400
thunderboltc1440
fudder1513
fire-flaughta1522
flag of firea1522
bolt1535
strokea1542
lightning bolta1560
lightning1560
fire-bolt?1562
fulgur1563
fulmen1563
thunder-thump1563
light-bolt1582
fire-flash1586
blaze1590
flake1590
clap1591
blastc1665
glade1744
streak1781
thunder-ball1820
leader stroke1934
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > stroke of > thunderbolt
fudderc1429
thunderboltc1440
bolt1535
fire-bolt?1562
fulmen1563
light-bolt1582
thunder-ball1820
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xiv. 351 The Thunderball..entred the Church.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 140 Caves cloven by thunder-ball.
1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin ii. 30 Trembling, on the flags we fall, Fearful of the thunder-ball.
1942 L. Bennett Jamaica Dial. Verses 41 Wen..Him tun roun..Him se de sinting two yeye dem A roll like tunder~ball... It was a rollin' kealf.
thunder-beat v. (transitive) ‘to beat with thundering strokes’ (Davies).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat heavily or severely
pounda1325
batter1377
pellc1450
hatter1508
whop1575
labour1594
thunder-beat1608
behammer1639
thunderstrike1818
sledgehammer1834
pun1838
to beat to a pulp1840
jackhammer1959
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith v. 100 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) So he them thunderbet wherso he went.
thunder-beaten adj.
ΚΠ
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 297 Shores..Thunder-beaten with the Floods.
thunder-beating n. beating down by thunder-storms.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > beating down by
thunder-beating1560
1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (1562) 125 Corn..is subject to many daungers as..thunder-beating, layde with a raine.
thunder-bird n. (a) a species of Australian shrike or thickhead ( Pachycephala gutturalis); (b) a mythical bird thought by some preliterate peoples to cause thunder.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird
pelicanOE
tiger1481
Stymphalid1560
roc1579
mamuque?1590
firebird1601
sunbird1616
ganzaa1633
cocklicrane1653
white bird1697
wakon-bird1778
simurgh1786
thunder-birda1827
huma1841
oozlum bird1858
lightning bird1870
jubjub1871
ho-ho bird1901
storm-bird1913
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Pachycephalinae > genus Pachycephala
coach-whip1793
thunder-birda1827
coachman1827
olive whistler1911
a1827 Caley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 15 239 This species is called Thunder-bird by the colonists... The natives tell me, that, when it begins to thunder, this bird is very noisy.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. ix. 328 Among Caribs, Brazilians,..Basutos, we find legends of a flapping or flashing Thunder-bird.
1875 F. Parkman in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 40 The thunder-bird is offended,..thunder-storms are occasioned by his anger.
thunderboat n. U.S. an unlimited hydroplane.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > hydroplane, hydrofoil, or hydroglider
hydroplane1904
gliding-boat1906
skimmer1909
hydroglider1921
hydrofoil1959
thunderboat1967
Jetfoil1972
1967 Compton Yearbk. 153/2 Through the previous 20 years, only three ‘thunderboat’ drivers had died in races.
1976 Pop. Mech. June 61/1 Officially, they are..hydroplane racing boats... To their hundreds of thousands of fans, they are unlimited hydros, thunderboats, gold cuppers, or just unlimiteds—the fastest racing machines afloat.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] > of thunder
thunderc1000
clapc1386
thunder-blasta1400
rout1513
thundering1526
rear1567
rounce robble hobble1582
robble1609
rouncy1616
thunder bounce1629
thunder-peal1804
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > thunder-clap
denta1300
dintc1374
thunder-clapc1386
thunder-blasta1400
thunder-crackc1450
clap1509
thundering1526
rear1567
thunder bounce1629
thunder-peal1804
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 1 When blustering Boreas tosseth vp the deepe, And thumps a thunder bounce?
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thunder-bowl n. a metal bowl used in a theatre to imitate thunder.
thunder-box n. slang a portable commode; by extension, any lavatory.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > close-stool or commode
privy stool1377
night-chair1404
close-stool1410
stool1410
chamber stool1567
night table1730
night-stool1781
commode1802
Sir John1808
chamber closet1842
chaise percée1939
thunder-box1939
1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War vii. 182 We should wash the dishes and clean the thunder-boxes.
1952 E. Waugh Men at Arms ii. ii. 178 ‘If you must know, it's my thunderbox.’.. He..dragged out the treasure, a brass-bound, oak cube... On the inside of the lid was a plaque bearing the embossed title Connolly's Chemical Closet.
1955 N. Fitzgerald House is Falling xi. 188 When the plumber called for instructions, Hapleigh chose the ground floor for the new thunder-box.
1980 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 18 Life in India was..coping with the indignities of the ‘thunder box’ (a portable earth commode) and searching sponges for stealthy scorpions.
thunderbug n. dialect (a) U.S. a horsefly; (b) a midge.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Chironomidae > member of (midge)
midgeeOE
thunderbug1837
curse1889
midgy1893
chironomid1925
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly)
breezea800
stoutc1000
horsefly1382
gad-bee1510
gadfly1569
brimse1579
wag-leg1585
breeze-fly1587
breame1589
beast-fly1658
burrel-fly1658
whame1658
gad-breeze1665
bree1678
garabee1692
gad1830
thunderbug1837
ox-warble1840
March fly1852
1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 71 Horse Fly.—..Of these there are five kinds.—1st. the large black, called thunder bug, an inch long.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 66 Those thunder-bugs did kiddle [sc. tickle] me so.
1974 P. Haines Tea at Gunter's xx. 214 Outside the air was still heavy; there were thunderbugs everywhere... I felt them settle on my skin, my hair.
thunder-carriage n. a name for the chariot of the god Thor in early Scandinavian art.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > northern > Thor > chariot of
thunder-carriage1882
1882 M. E. Gooday tr. J. J. A. Worsaae Industr. Arts Denmark 168 Another type of coarser work..represents Thor..on his thunder-carriage.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > bugle plant or bloom
thunder-cloverc1000
buglea1300
wood-browna1300
prunella1527
ground-pine1551
consound1578
field cypress1578
forget-me-not1578
middle comfrey1578
prunel1578
ajuga1640
ground-ivy1640
bugle-bloom1818
bugleweed1841
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 374 genim..ðunorclafran blostman [etc.].
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/2 Consolida media, i. þundreclouere.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > others
quathriganc1175
starc1384
yoke1415
sheafc1420
arrow1548
thunder-dart1569
memento mori1598
quadriga1600
Triton1601
anchor1621
chimera1634
forest-work1647
Bacchanaliaa1680
Bacchanal1753
subject1781
harp1785
mask1790
arrowhead1808
gorgoneion1842
Amazonomachia1845
Amazonomachy1893
mythograph1893
physicomorph1895
horns of consecration1901
double image1939
motion study1977
1569 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Sonets in T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings sig. C.iiv Thunder dartes for Jove.
ˈthunder-ˌdarter n. the wielder of thunderbolts.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter
Jupiterc1275
Jovec1374
thundererc1374
altitonant?1578
lightener1598
thunder-darter1605
thunder-bearer1608
Saturnian1611
fulminator1613
thunder-mastera1616
fly-way-driver1658
Jupiter Pluvius1864
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 10 Th' immortall, mighty thunder-darter.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 10 O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus. View more context for this quotation
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Jupiter
Jovian1530
thunder-darting1602
jovial1604
altitonant1656
thunder-bearing1661
all-protecting1768
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective] > thunder > sending or bearing thunder (of Jove)
altitonant1600
thunder-darting1602
thunder-bearing1661
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. L4 You shall sweare, By Thunder-darting Ioue, the King of Gods. View more context for this quotation
thunder-dint n. archaic a thunder-stroke.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
thunderc893
thunder-dintc1374
thunder-flonec1380
thunder-blasta1400
thunderboltc1440
thunder-stone1598
thunder-clap1610
thunderstrokea1616
trisulc1637
thunder-ball1820
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1505 How cappaneus the proude With thonder dynt was slayn.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 100 He was smyten to deth, wyth leuenyng & wyth thunder-dynt.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiv. 46 The Mount, where Israel heard the law, Mid thunder-dint, and flashing levin.
thunder-dirt n. name for a gelatinous fungus, Ileodictyon cibarium, eaten by the Maori of New Zealand.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > other edible fungi
Jew's ear1544
morel1653
Judas's ear1692
moriglio1698
chanterelle1777
sage-apple1832
swamp-apple1846
swamp-cheese1859
cèpe1865
mayapple1872
thunder-dirt1883
mealy parasol1887
1883 R. Turner in Good Words Sept. 590/1 The gelatinous [fungus] which the New Zealand natives know as ‘thunder-dirt’.
1925 R. T. Rolfe & F. W. Rolfe Romance Fungus World ix. 178 Under the name of ‘Thunder dirt’, the Maories of New Zealand used formerly, because of the lack of better food, the gelatinous volva of Ileodictyon.
thunder-drop n. one of the large scattered drops of rain which fall at the beginning of a thunder-shower.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > raindrop > specific
after-dropa1586
heat-drop1651
thunder-drop1832
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxxvii, in Poems (new ed.) 131 As thunder drops fall on a sleeping sea.
thunder-drum n. (a) a drum used in a theatre to imitate thunder; (b) a fabulous drum represented as the source of thunder.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter > drum of
thunder-drum1807
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > for thunder
mustard-bowl1674
thunder-trunk1767
thunder-drum1807
thundering-machine1826
bronteon1849
crash1891
thunder-sheet1913
thunder run1944
1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 306 The great thunder drum has been new braced.
1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 175 When Jove beats loud his thunder-drum.
1967 Stage 2 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) Thunder drums, bells, chimes, gongs and effects of every description.
thunder egg n. North American and Australian a geode, esp. of chalcedony.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > concretionary or nodular > geode
geode1623
geodite1802
potato stone1824
thunder egg1951
1951 W. F. Heald Scenic Guide Oregon 25 Agate- and opal-filled nodules called ‘Thunder Eggs’ can be found near Madras.
1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate ix. 187 She never returned empty-handed, hauling back..petrified woods, agates..thundereggs, [etc.].
1973 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 Feb. 14/5 The individual bays of the caravan park are marked off by ‘thunder eggs’ (round stones a foot and more in diameter, many of which contain fossilised fish).
1977 Trailer Life July 16/3 ‘Thunder eggs’, the agate-colored nodules familiar to many rockhounds, are a variety of spherulite.
thunder-fish n. (a) a siluroid fish of African rivers, Malapterurus electricus, capable of inflicting electric shocks; (b) a European cyprinoid fish, Misgurnus fossilis, which burrows in mud, and comes to the surface before bad weather; also called weather-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > genus Malapterurus > member of (electric cat-fish)
raad1837
thunder-fish1882
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > member of family Cobitidae (loach)
loach1357
grundel14..
groundling1601
smerlin1668
ground-gudgeon1867
thunder-fish1882
weather-fish1886
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Thunder-fish, a species of fish..found in the Nile, which, like the torpedo, can give an electric shock... The Malapterurus electricus of naturalists.
1886 Nature 25 Mar. 497/2 Additions to the Zool. Soc. Gardens..include..a Thunder Fish (Misgurnus fossilis) from Austria.
thunder-fit n. a shock or sound like thunder.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 9 The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit.
thunderflash n. in military use, a harmless, very noisy, form of explosive; a firework imitating this.
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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib
squib1534
crackera1592
breaker1630
serpent1634
fizgig1647
firecracker1650
petard1668
reporter1688
riprap1709
swarmer1740
mine1769
India cracker1780
throwdown1877
whizz-bang1881
flip-flap1885
snake1891
thunderflash1943
banger1959
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > other explosive devices
squib1590
Volta's pistol1779
water worm1809
satchel charge1943
thunderflash1943
Willie Peter1963
Willie Pete1972
suicide belt1974
1943 C. C. Knights What H.G. needs to know about Explosives 10 The only ‘fireworks’ issued to the typical H.G. unit are crackers and thunder~flashes used to give ‘an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing’ exercise.
1959 G. Adamson Let. 19 Mar. in J. Adamson Born Free (1960) 139 I went to visit Elsa... I let off three thunder flashes..and..she suddenly appeared.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xi. 210 And we did ought to have..used firecrackers and thunderflashes and horns and whistles.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
thunderc893
thunder-dintc1374
thunder-flonec1380
thunder-blasta1400
thunderboltc1440
thunder-stone1598
thunder-clap1610
thunderstrokea1616
trisulc1637
thunder-ball1820
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 186 Crist seiþ..þat he saiȝ Saþanas fallinge fro hevene, as þe þunder floon falliþ fro þe cloude.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 119 So bright as it shone; I wold haue trowyd, veraly, It had bene thoner-flone.
thunder-flower n. a local name for three different plants: (a) the common stitchwort, Stellaria holostea; (b) the corn poppy, Papaver rhœas; (c) the white campion, Lychnis vespertina.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts
chicken meateOE
bird's-tonguea1300
stitchworta1300
chickenweedc1300
piglea1400
chickweed?a1425
craches1530
mouse-ear1578
all-bony1597
chickenwort1762
Stellaria1785
all bones1787
mouse-eared chickweed1789
cerastium1799
starwort1809
satin flower1836
adder's meat1853
thunder-flower1853
snap-jack1867
shirt button1880
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin
cow-rattle14..
campion1576
behen1578
crowsoap1578
white campion1578
catchfly1597
feather-top wild campion1597
frothy poppy1597
lime-wort1597
nonsuch1597
sea campion1597
spattling poppy (also campion)1597
Greek rose1601
lychnis1601
knap-bottle1640
moss pink1641
Lobel's catchfly1664
red robin1678
moss campion1690
red campion1728
round robin1741
Silene1751
Nottingham catchfly1762
silenal1836
Robin Hood1844
thunder-flower1853
gunpowder weed1860
sea-catchfly1864
robin redbreast1880
poppy1886
thunderbolt1886
rattleweed1893
cancer1896
bladder-campion-
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy
poppyeOE
wild poppya1300
red poppya1400
mecop1480
corn-rose1527
field poppy1597
redweed1609
darnel1612
cockrose?1632
canker1640
tell-love1640
rose poppy1648
erratic poppy1661
corn poppy1671
headwark1691
cop-rose1776
headachea1825
thunderbolt1847
thunder-flower1853
Iceland poppy1870
Greenland poppy1882
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 30 About Wooler it [the corn-poppy] was wont to be called Thunder-flower or Lightnings, and children were afraid to pluck the flower, for if..the petals fell off..the gatherer became more liable to be struck with lightning.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Thunder-flower. (1) Stellaria Holostea... (2) Papaver Rhœas.—E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord... (3) Lychnis vespertina.—W. Cumb.
thunder-fly n. a name for the insects of the genus Thrips.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Thysanoptera > genus Thrips > member(s) of
blackfly1652
thrip1699
thunder-fly1854
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 213 The tiny Thunder-Flies which we often find during the summer in countless multitudes.
thunder god n. the god of thunder; a deity supposed to rule or control the thunder, as Jove in the Roman, or Thor in the Norse mythology.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of (types of) weather
zephyrOE
wind-god1594
rain god1838
thunder god1841
rain-goddess1854
storm-goddess1869
storm power1869
storm-god1877
bolt-bearer1883
weather-god1905
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 58 Thor the Thundergod changed into Jack the Giant-killer.
1907 Q. Rev. July 193 Kari, the thunder-god, who kills the wicked by lightning.
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thunder-hammer n. a popular name for a celt or other prehistoric implement (cf. thunder-axe n.).
thunderhead n. (a) a rounded mass of cumulus cloud seen near the horizon projecting above the general body of cloud, and portending a thunder-storm; hence thunder-headed adj., having, or of the nature of, a thunderhead; (b) nonce-use a large head, as a whale's head.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > storm-cloud
thunder-cloud1697
storm-cloud1822
thunderhead1851
storm-breeder1867
hogback1933
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxiii. 365 Throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 138 An iceberg rises..after the figure of a thunderhead.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 94 A growing storm or thunder-head in the horizon.
thunder-house n. a small model of a house with electric conductors through which a discharge may be passed to illustrate the destructive effects of a thunderstroke.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > conduction to earth > [noun] > lightning conductor > demonstration of
thunder-house1773
1773 Henley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 135 The apparatus known, to electricians, by the name of the thunder-house.
1887 Gumming Electr. treated Experimentally 147 An instructive experiment is that known as the Thunder House.
thunder-master n. the master or lord of thunder, i.e. Jove.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter
Jupiterc1275
Jovec1374
thundererc1374
altitonant?1578
lightener1598
thunder-darter1605
thunder-bearer1608
Saturnian1611
fulminator1613
thunder-mastera1616
fly-way-driver1658
Jupiter Pluvius1864
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 124 No more thou Thunder-Master shew thy spight on Mortall Flies. View more context for this quotation
thunder-mug n. slang = chamber pot n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc.
jordan1402
pissing vessel1440
pisspot1440
urinalc1475
pissing basin1481
piss bowlc1527
chamber vessel?1529
chamber pot1540
pot1568
jordan-pot1577
night-tub1616
looking-glassa1627
water-pot1629
chamber utensil1699
member-mug1699
utensil1699
pot de chambre1777
chanty1788
pig1810
piss bucket1819
chamber1829
jerry1859
po1880
thunder-mug1890
article1922
potty1937
honeypotc1947
totty-pot1966
piss-tin1974
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 347/2 Thunder-mug (American low), a chamber utensil.
1942 D. Gilbert Lost Chords 6 His room furnishings were meager—a rag carpet,..a bowl and pitcher on a washstand whose closet concealed a chamber, or ‘thunder mug’.
1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse ii. 108 Thundermug, a chamber-pot.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > tadpole
powheada1325
pollywog1440
tadpole1519
horse-nail1608
bullhead1611
thunder-pad1700
frog tadpole1799
frogling1840
1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 453 These animals [tadpoles] are known by the vulgar sort of people by the name of Thunder-pads.
thunder-peal n. a peal or resounding clap of thunder.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] > of thunder
thunderc1000
clapc1386
thunder-blasta1400
rout1513
thundering1526
rear1567
rounce robble hobble1582
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rouncy1616
thunder bounce1629
thunder-peal1804
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > thunder-clap
denta1300
dintc1374
thunder-clapc1386
thunder-blasta1400
thunder-crackc1450
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thundering1526
rear1567
thunder bounce1629
thunder-peal1804
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 19 Thunder-peals compelled the men of blood To couch within their dens.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 86 The breaking up of the weather was announced by a thunder-peal.
thunder-pealed adj. uttered loudly as by a thunder-peal.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > loud or angry > of speech
wratlinga1661
syrmatic1716
thundered1823
thunder-pealed1878
megaphoned1927
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 150 Truth is truth in each degree—Thunder-pealed by God to Nature, whispered by my soul to me.
thunder-pick n. a local name for a belemnite (cf. thunderbolt n. 3a).
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Belemnitidae > member of
fairy fingers1780
thunder-pick1801
belemnite1833
pencil1843
1801 Med. Jrnl. 21 85 A stone of the calcareous species,..called by the common people thunder-pick.
thunder-plant n. a name for the house-leek, Sempervivum tectorum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > houseleek
sinfulleOE
fulleOE
homeworteOE
sengreenc1000
houseleeka1400
jubarbc1450
ay-green1562
sempervivum1591
imbreke1597
Jupiter's eye1597
sea-green1601
sempervive1625
semper-vivens1672
house-green1688
cyphel1691
fouat1822
bullock's eye1861
Jupiter's beard1861
thunder-plant1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1148 Thunder plant, Sempervivum tectorum.
thunder-plump n. [compare plump n.3 2] chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern) a heavy and sudden thunder-shower.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > with thunder
thunder-shower1676
thunder-plump1821
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish i. 22 It came on such a thunder-plump, that there was not a single soul stayed in the kirk-yard to hear him.
1883 I. L. Bishop in Leisure Hour 20/2 A heavy shower, like a ‘thunder-plump’, takes up a part of the afternoon.
1926 H. McDiarmid Drunk Man looks at Thistle 33 Like a thunder-plump on the sunlicht, Or the slounge o' daith on my dreams.
1977 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 18 Nov. I am beginning to think that I must be the only ignoramus in Dunedin who has never heard of a thunderplump.
2000 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 29 July 42 He had to dash for cover..just as the first thunder plump swept across the course.
thunder-pump n. = thunder-pumper n. (a).
thunder-pumper n. (a) the American bittern, also called pump-thunder; (b) the American fish Haplodinotus grunniens, also called freshwater drum, croaker, or sheepshead: in both cases from the sounds which they emit.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Haplodinotus
drummer1615
drum1649
sheep's head1676
bubbler1819
thunder-pumper1877
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Botaurus (bittern) > miscellaneous types of
American bitternc1330
bitternc1330
shitepoke1775
dunkadooa1813
matuku1847
stake-driver1872
thunder-pumper1877
1877 Scribner's Monthly July 285/2 The natives call these bitterns by the very appropriate if not euphonious name of ‘thunder-pumper’.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 142 The name..‘Thunder~pumper’, also used for the bittern,..is heard along the Mississippi River.
1891 E. Roper By Track & Trail xxi. 312 The gurgle and the wheeze and the final explosion of a ‘thunder-pumper’ [bittern].
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > lightning conductor
lightning rod1770
lightning conductor1773
thunder-rod1784
paratonnerre1821
lightning arrester1852
lightning discharger1853
1784 G. Adams Ess. Electr. ix. 154 When lightning strikes a tree..or a thunder-rod, it is not because these objects are high..but because they communicate with..the surface of the ground.
1824 Mechanic's Mag. 25 Sept. 10 A good kitchen fire has more efficacy in preventing a house from being struck than a whole magazine of thunder~rods.
thunder run n. Theatre two wooden troughs down which iron balls were rolled to imitate thunder.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > for thunder
mustard-bowl1674
thunder-trunk1767
thunder-drum1807
thundering-machine1826
bronteon1849
crash1891
thunder-sheet1913
thunder run1944
1944 Archit. Rev. 95 135/2 Archaic devices like the ‘thunder run’, the ‘sloat’ system of raising scenery, the ‘drum and shaft’ method of hanging it, still survive at Bristol.
1976 Early Music 4 401/1 The thunder simulated at the beginning and end of the Cave scene must be..baroque-artificial—for preference made by cannon-balls in a thunder run.
thunder-sheet n. Theatre a piece of sheet metal shaken to imitate thunder.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > for thunder
mustard-bowl1674
thunder-trunk1767
thunder-drum1807
thundering-machine1826
bronteon1849
crash1891
thunder-sheet1913
thunder run1944
1913 ‘V. D. Browne’ Secrets Scene Painting & Stage Effects 66 Hung from flies. A thunder Sheet.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 503 Raindrum, windmachine, snowbox. But thundersheet?
1967 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 947/2 The noise of thunder is usually produced off-stage by the shaking of a suspended iron sheet known as the Thunder Sheet.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning
fireOE
lightinglOE
levininga1300
lightningc1300
lightc1325
thunderlightc1374
firelighta1400
laitinga1400
lighten?a1425
Jove's or God's branda1522
fulgur1563
thunder-shot1606
whirl-fire1606
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning
fireOE
lightinglOE
levininga1300
levinc1300
lightningc1300
lightc1325
thunderlightc1374
firelighta1400
laitinga1400
lighten?a1425
Jove's or God's branda1522
fulgur1563
thunder-shot1606
whirl-fire1606
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 44 Heav'n flings-down nought but flashing Thunder-shot.
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1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. ii. 130 Some haue beene..thunder-shot in a bath.
thunder-shower n. a shower of rain accompanied by thunder and lightning; now chiefly U.S.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > with thunder
thunder-shower1676
thunder-plump1821
1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry i. ii. 273 The conceit had need be good, it is so long in delivering; but at last it comes like a thunder-showre, full of sulphur and darkness.
1766 J. Wesley Jrnl. 13 July We were met..by a furious thunder-shower.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iv. 174 Softly, as the last repenting drops Of a thunder-shower.
1947 S. Bellow Victim i. 5 A thundershower began when he approached the outside door.
1980 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 28 Oct. 2/3 Clouds will prevail across much of North Carolina today, with some showers or thundershowers possible through Wednesday.
thunder-slain adj. obsolete or dialect struck by ‘thunder’ or lightning.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > death by lightning
thunder-slainc1440
c1440 York Myst. xi. 320 So are they threst and thondour slayne.
1732 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life & Death D. Cargill 25 Frighted as if they were blasted or thunder-slain.
thunder-smite v. (transitive) to smite as with thunder, to discomfit utterly.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 118 Hellas thundersmote The Persian.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Vulcan
VulcanOE
thunder-smith1592
god-smith?1611
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii. 37 That terrible Thundersmith of termes.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 190 Vulcan..the..thunder-smith of..Iupiter.
thunder-snake n. a name for snakes of the genus Ophibolus (also thunder-and-lightning snake), and for the common little worm-snake, Carphiophis amœna, of the U.S.; perhaps from their being forced out of their holes by a thunder-shower.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Ophibolus
kingsnake1709
thunder-snake1800
milk snake1826
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Carphophis (worm-snake)
thunder-snake1800
ground-snake1885
worm-snake1885
1800 C. Lamb Let. 16 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 241 Whip snakes, Thunder snakes, Pig nose snakes.
1863 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 140 A thunder~snake, eight feet long.
thunder stick n. a name said to have been given to a rifle or cannon by peoples who did not possess firearms.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun]
cane of fire1550
shota1578
fire1590
fire piece1592
fireweapon?1592
powder instrument1613
firearm1643
firegun1677
bulldog1700
nail driver1823
peacemaker1840
thunder stick1918
1918 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan & Jewels of Opar (1919) xvii. 157 The ape folk fear the thunder-sticks of the Tarmangani.
1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxiv. 229 A puff of smoke belched from the brig... They had expected resistance, but had hoped the vessel was too small to carry the ‘big thunder sticks’.
1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Apr. 115/1 The white man came to shatter the silence of the wilderness with his thunder stick.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of
laitc900
slaughta1300
levinc1300
fire-slaughta1400
flaughta1400
thunderboltc1440
fudder1513
fire-flaughta1522
flag of firea1522
bolt1535
strokea1542
lightning bolta1560
lightning1560
fire-bolt?1562
fulgur1563
fulmen1563
thunder-thump1563
light-bolt1582
fire-flash1586
blaze1590
flake1590
clap1591
blastc1665
glade1744
streak1781
thunder-ball1820
leader stroke1934
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. B*.ii O thou yt throwest the thunder thumps from Heauens hye, to Hell.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
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paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
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bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 11/2 I will soe thunderthump Your Pautry Politans.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb4 Now the thunderthumping Ioue transfund his dotes into your excellent formositie.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. xii The shriking trump, and thunder-thumping drum.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. iii. 192 They cannot..cloath their thoughts in thunder-thumping Phraseology.
thunder-trunk n. Theatre a trunk in which iron balls were rolled to imitate thunder.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > for thunder
mustard-bowl1674
thunder-trunk1767
thunder-drum1807
thundering-machine1826
bronteon1849
crash1891
thunder-sheet1913
thunder run1944
1767 D. Garrick Peep behind Curtain i. 22 Ladies, you can't possibly have any thunder and lightning this morning; one of the planks of the thunder-trunk started the other night.
1830 G. Colman Random Rec. I. vii. 229 For then did my Evil Genius enthrone himself upon a thunder-trunk, with a roll of play-bills in his hand.
thunder-tube n. = fulgurite n. 1, lightning-tube (lightning n. and adj. Compounds 3).
thunder-worm n. ‘an amphisbænoid lizard of Florida, Rhineura floridana: so called as forced out of its burrows by a thunder-shower’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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thundersnow n. snowfall accompanied by thunder and lightning; (also) an instance of this, a thunder snowstorm.
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1982 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 6 Apr. 13/3 Thunder snow is real common in the mountains... But it's almost always too warm for that around here.
1997 Chicago Tribune (Electronic ed.) 19 Nov. 14 Thundersnows are a special problem in Japan, he says, where warm ocean waters prompt frequent discharges.
2011 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 24/3 More than 400,000 Washington homes were left without power after ‘thundersnow’ swept across the capital.
Draft additions June 2015
thunder snowstorm n. a snowstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning.
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1869 Monthly Rep. Dept. Agric. May 255 Remarkable thunder snow-storm, in gusts of balls and flakes.
1908 Western Field May 248/2 A kodak picture of Mt. Pitt, was taken during the progress of the thunder snow storm.
2013 Denver Post (Electronic ed.) 17 Mar. e1 A thunder snowstorm hit, which Weather Channel is very excited about.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
thunderv.
/ˈθʌndə/, U.S. /ˈθəndər/ 1. intransitive.
a. Impersonally: it thunders, thunder sounds, there is thunder.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [verb (intransitive)] > thunder
it thundersc888
tonitruate1623
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §3 Hit hwilum þunrað, hwilum na ne onginð.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 29 Seo menio..þæt gehyrde sædon þæt hyt þunrode.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 198/37 Þat weder..bi-gan to chaungie..hit bi-gan to þondri and hauli.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 235 Hit þester bi-gon and þonderde swiþe.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xii. f. cxl Then sayde the people that stode by and herde, it thoundreth.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3691 Thunret full throly; thrappit the windes.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. viii. 33 If in sommer it lighten when it thundreth not.
1725 I. Watts Logick iii. ii. §4 Thunder seldom comes without Lightning; but it thundered Yesterday; therefore probably it lightened also.
1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xv I can well remember that in Navarre one day it thundered on the left out of a cloudless sky.
b. With subject (the or a deity, heaven, the clouds, the sky, etc.): To cause or give forth thunder; to sound with thunder.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [verb (intransitive)] > of thunder
thundera1000
tonitruate1623
a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) xxvii[i]. 3 He is mægen-þrymmes God, and he þunrað ofer manegum wæterum.
a1300 E.E. Psalter xvi[i]. 14 [13] And laverd thonered fra heuen.
a1340 R. Rolle Cant. in Psalter 502 In heuyns he sall thonyre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvi[i]. 17 Ye cloudes thondered, and thy arowes wente abrode.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 3 Thee skyes doo thunder.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 257 He would not flatter..Ioue, for's power to Thunder . View more context for this quotation
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. vii. 68 Then darkness covered all,...Earth shook, Heaven thundered.
c. transitive (with various objects): To deal out or inflict by thunder; to strike down by thunder; to utter in thunder. archaic. rare.
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1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 30 Beeing the sonnes of Iupiter, they..thunder out plagues to the proude in heart.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 146 The Heav'nly Powrs, Who thunder-down the high-aspiring Towrs.
a1625 King James VI & I in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 4 God doth thunder his uoyce.
2. transferred.
a. intransitive. To make a loud resounding noise like thunder; to sound very loudly; to roar. Sometimes connoting violent movement: To rush or fall with great noise and commotion.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)]
flitec900
beme?c1225
thunderc1374
full-sounda1382
claryc1440
reird1508
shout1513
to make the welkin ring1590
rally1728
din1798
alarm1839
trombone1866
clarion1885
blast1931
blare1955
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly with or as with sound
thunderc1374
hurtle1509
rattle1555
skirr1567
whizz1591
brustle1638
clatter1810
whoosh1856
fizz1864
zoon1880
zing1899
skoosh1904
zoom1924
scream1943
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. met. iv. 31 Al thowgh the wynde trowblynge the see thondre with ouer~throwynges.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1334 The great artillary began to thunder from either syde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 705 The Danes like a mighty storme thundring from out of the North-east.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 1017 His fiery Coursers thunder o'er the Plains.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. iv. 26 A Footman knocked, or rather thundered at the Door. View more context for this quotation
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific x. 124 A vast body of water passed down over a precipice about a hundred feet high, and thundered into the sea.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 175 Avalanches thundered incessantly from the Aiguille Verte.
1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey i. 4 The children of these fist-shakers now go thundering by in their own huge coaches and loll in velvet as they go.
1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 Lancasters..thundered through the night to pinpoint their objectives.
1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids i. 9 The westbound buses thundered along trying to beat the lights.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 38 We thundered down the steep hill into the centre of the town, the squawking hens bouncing up and down on the flat cart, straw and feathers flying.
b. transitive (with various objects): To deal or inflict, drive or impel, sound or give forth, strike, attack, or bombard, put down or overwhelm, etc. with a loud noise or other action like thunder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > so as to make a sound > strike with sounding blows
to-dunc1240
clapc1300
thunder1590
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard
ding1548
to lay battery to1548
cannon1567
thunder1590
cannonade1637
bombard1686
bomb1694
shell1827
plonk1874
plaster1914
bump1915
labour1915
water1915
barragea1917
paste1942
stonk1944
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > surpass in loudness or drown
outvoice1612
out-thunder1616
outnoise1639
deaf1640
deafen1823
thunder1845
overtone1862
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F5 They gan..To thunder blowes, and fiersly to assaile Each other.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. 33 Forth the Boaster..begonne His stolen steed to thunder furiously.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H3 Thou angerst vs,..and we will thunder thee in peeces. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 108 The English merchants ships thundred out his health by 200 great shot.
1687 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 322 The Town would be thundred with greater violence.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad vi. 173 Learn to dread My vengeance thund'red on your wretched head.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 217 Like to a foaming force, Which thunders down the echo it creates.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. xii He pounded it [a drum], boomed it, thundered it.
3. figurative.
a. intransitive. To speak in the way of vehement threatening or reproof; to utter terrible menace or denunciation; to ‘fulminate’; to inveigh powerfully against; sometimes, to speak bombastically, or with powerful eloquence. Also simply, to speak in a very loud tone, shout loudly, vociferate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > utter threats
boastc1300
thundera1340
comminate1801
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be bombastic (of language) > use bombastic language
thunder1575
rant1602
mouth1604
rant1649
paratragediate1656
bemouth1799
fustianize1830
heroize1838
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > denounce [verb (intransitive)] > denounce violently
fulminate1620
thunder1722
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 15 Oure lord thonord, manaunsand pyne of hell til synful men.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. v. f. xiiiv Thunder not at him with cruell wordes.
1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.ij For it is not inough..to thunder in Rym, Ram, Ruff, by letter (quoth my master Chaucer).
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 142 The Hoste so thundred among us like the bragging souldier.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 386 The Queen of Furies..thund'ring in their Ears.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 33 The Ministers..thundred against these, and other wicked Practices.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches i. 9 James Otis thundered in this hall.
b. transitive. To utter or publish in the way of terrible threatening, denunciation, or invective; also simply, to utter loudly, shout out, roar.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > utter as threat
thunderc1380
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > denounce [verb (transitive)] > violently > utter (violent denunciation)
thunderc1380
fulminate?a1475
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > utter loudly or angrily
yeiea1225
call?c1250
soundc1374
ringa1400
upcasta1400
barkc1440
resound?c1525
blustera1535
brawl1563
thunder1592
out-thunder?1611
peal1611
tonitruate1623
intonatea1631
mouth1700
rip1828
boom1837
explode1839
clamour1856
blare1859
foghorn1886
megaphone1901
gruff1925
loudmouth1931
woof1934
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 287 Cursyngis purchased of þe pope and oþere felle sensuris þondured ouere til Englond.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 74 Do not thunder sore threatenings.
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. E The twelue labors of Hercules haue I terribly thundred on the Stage.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C3 Feareful ecchoes thunders in mine eares, Faustus, thou art damnd.
1604 S. Rowlands Looke to It sig. F2 Thunder out Oathes, such as in Hell are bred.
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 30 Aug. 1/2 Adieu ye Whiggs, Poor Protestant Pigs The Tories now will thunder us.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 196 Censures would have been thundred at Rome against all that should take any such test.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Mar. He thundered out so much of his abuse of me,..that the boys roared with laughter.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 105 Tyrians thunder applause.
c. To hurl or launch vehement threats or invectives against; to denounce violently; also, to drive or put down by denunciation. Now rare or Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > firmly, strongly
urge1599
thunder1677
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > denounce [verb (transitive)] > violently
thunder1677
fulminate1687
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against > violently
to-threat1377
thunder1677
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. vi. 103 S. Becket..thunders from off the Earth, and down as low as Hell, vast numbers of Clerks, Bishops, and Nobles.
1694 J. Crowne Married Beau v. 62 Men thunder one another.
a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 331 If he had..thundered down deceit.
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